How the Paris 2024 Village has been transformed for Paralympians with...
By TOM NOUVIAN SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Just four days before the start of the Paralympic Games, the athletes village was buzzing with activity on Saturday as athletes from 168 delegations were...
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Swimmer Ali Truwit makes Paralympics a year after losing lower leg in shark...
By PAT GRAHAM The first step for swimmer Ali Truwit was overcoming her newfound fear of the one place she had always felt safe — the water. Because the sound of water, any sound involving water,...
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Paralympic social media accounts bypass traditional media with edgy take
By ANA ESCAMILLA, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The message is clear: Paralympians are not participating. They are competing. A number of athletes preparing for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games have...
View ArticleParis to inaugurate Paralympic Games with ‘never seen before’ opening...
By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Just weeks after hosting the Olympics, the summer of sports in Paris begins its final chapter Wednesday with the opening ceremony of the Paralympic...
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Ezra Frech wins Paralympics gold in the 100 meters
PARIS — Nineteen-year-old Ezra Frech made sure the first Paralympic medal of his career was gold after putting together a massive personal-best time in the T63 100-meter final to claim the title in a...
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USC’s Ezra Frech sets Paralympics record to win high jump gold medal
USC freshman Ezra Frech celebrates after winning the men’s T63 high jump gold medal at the Paralympics on Tuesday in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) USC freshman Ezra Frech celebrates with friends and...
View ArticleParalympic Games end with a Parisian electro-dance party after 2 world...
PARIS (AP) — The Paralympic Games ended Sunday with two world records and a spectacular light show during a closing ceremony dominated by French electronic music Jean-Michel Jarre got the party...
View ArticleUCLA coach John Speraw named USA Volleyball CEO
U.S. Olympic and national team and UCLA head coach John Speraw, who won two NCAA titles as a Bruins player and then coached UCLA to two more national championships, has resigned to become president and...
View ArticleUSOPC moves to decertify USA Badminton
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has moved to decertify badminton’s national governing body, citing repeated U.S. Center for Safe Sport compliance, athlete safety, financial, governance and...
View ArticlePat Woepse, husband of US women’s water polo star Maddie Musselman, dies at 31
U.S. women’s water polo star Maddie Musselman Woepse is mourning the loss of her husband, Pat, who died Thursday night from a rare form of lung cancer. He was 31. Pat Woepse was diagnosed with NUT...
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